Week 1: History and Scope of Statistics

Weekly Objectives

• Randomness and probability
• Philosophy of Statistical hypothesis test
• Experiment
  
• Null and alternative hypotheses
• Interpreting p-values
• Type I and Type II errors
• Statistical power
• Limitations of statistics

Lecture Note

• [Intro to Statistics]

R Examples

• None

Homework

• Reading: Sections 11.3.3 and 11.3.4 of the BPS textbook
• Install R and RStudio before Week 2 lecture
  • If you have trouble installing R or RStudio, this video can be helpful
  • You can find some basic R information in [Chaper 1] of my SMLR textbook.
  • We will go over some basics during the Week 2 lecture